Sep 25 Watch 3:44 Kavanaugh defends teenage self as Trump attacks accusers As Thursday’s hearing approaches, Senate Republicans are circling around Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh while he took the uncommon step of defending himself in a TV interview against two on-the-record sexual misconduct allegations. Meanwhile, President Trump accused Democrats of using… Continue watching
Sep 25 Watch 4:56 Sen. Coons: Republicans may be going for ‘prosecutorial’ tone in Kavanaugh hearing Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., says the Judiciary Committee should treat Thursday’s hearing with Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford not as a trial but as a job interview. Coons joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the news that… Continue watching
Sep 25 Watch 5:55 Kavanaugh supporter: ‘We have all the information we need’ on Yale allegation Travis Lenkner, a former law clerk for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, says the Supreme Court nominee is expecting to go to the hearing into alleged sexual misconduct on Thursday to look the senators in the eye and clear his name. Lenkner… Continue watching
Sep 25 Watch 8:37 After scores of allegations, Bill Cosby is going to prison. What changed? Comedian and actor Bill Cosby, 81, was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004, though some 60 women have accused him of similar crimes going back 50 years. William Brangham… Continue watching
Sep 25 French President tells UN it’s time to stop telling women ‘what to do with their bodies’ By Associated Press Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, Macron said "it's time to put an end to all of this," to stop allowing women to be victims of sexual and other abuse and instead to give women "their due place" in world… Continue reading
Sep 25 Bill Cosby’s day of reckoning arrives By Maryclaire Dale, Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press Facing the possibility of prison at 81, Bill Cosby arrived at a suburban Philadelphia courthouse Tuesday to learn his punishment for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman over a decade ago in what led to the first celebrity trial of… Continue reading
Sep 24 Watch 8:42 Republicans push back on new Kavanaugh allegation as Democrats call for delay Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his allies in the White House are pushing back against a new allegation of sexual misconduct. Kavanaugh’s former classmate at Yale University told the New Yorker that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during their… Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch 5:24 Ronan Farrow: Yale classmate ‘extraordinarily careful’ in accusing Kavanaugh The New Yorker reported Sunday night that a woman who knew Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in college says that he exposed himself to her at a party freshman year. Kavanaugh has categorically denied this story, as well as the… Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch 8:24 Amy Walter and Tamara Keith on GOP support for Kavanaugh, Rod Rosenstein’s future Amy Walter from the Cook Political Report and NPR’s Tamara Keith join Judy Woodruff to discuss how the midterm elections are shaping up, how allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh impacts Republicans and questions swirling around Deputy Attorney General… Continue watching
Sep 24 ‘I will not be intimidated’: Read Brett Kavanaugh’s full letter defending against latest allegations By Associated Press Several Senate Republicans have called the allegations "smears" and urged a vote on Kavanaugh after Thursday's hearing. Continue reading